Leonardo da Vinci Timeline

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1452 CE - 1519 CE

Life of the great Italian artist, scientist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci.
15 Apr 1452 CE

Birth of Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci.
c. 1464 CE

Leonardo da Vinci enrols as an apprentice in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence.
1472 CE

Leonardo da Vinci completes his apprenticeship as an artist in Florence.
c. 1472 CE

Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting 'The Annunciation'.
1482 CE

Leonardo da Vinci moves to Milan where he works for Ludovico Sforza.
c. 1483 CE

Leonardo da Vinci completes his oil on panel painting 'Virgin of the Rocks'.
c. 1490 CE

Leonardo da Vinci completes his portrait of Ludovico Sforza’s mistress Cecilia Gallerani, 'The Lady with an Ermine'.
c. 1492 CE

Leonardo da Vinci completes his 'Vitruvian Man' sketch.
c. 1498 CE

Leonardo da Vinci completes his wall mural 'The Last Supper' in Milan's Sante Maria delle Grazie.
1500 CE

The Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci visits Venice.
1502 CE

Leonardo da Vinci moves to Rome where he works for Cesare Borgia to sort out the city’s canals.
1502 CE

Leonardo da Vinci produces his precise overhead view map of Imola, the first map of its kind.
c. 1503 CE

Leonard da Vinci completes his coloured charcoal illustration 'Virgin and Child with St. Anne'.
1503 CE

Leonardo da Vinci returns to Florence to work on proposals for a battle scene mural in the city’s Council Hall.
c. 1503 CE - c. 1506 CE

Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting the 'Mona Lisa'.
c. 1515 CE

Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting 'St. John the Baptist '.
1517 CE

Leonardo da Vinci moves to France to work for Francis I of France.
2 May 1519 CE

Leonardo da Vinci dies at Chateau Cloux (aka Clos Lucé) in France.